"Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness." (Matthew 5:6)
But surely there would be no blessing in it if it were simply to hunger and thirst. We do not like to be hungry, and be unable to get anything to eat. It is intolerable torture to be thirsty, and to go hour after hour finding no water.
The Saviour says, that they that hunger and thirst after righteousness are blessed, "for they shall be filled." (Matthew 5:6)
The blessing is that He has such an abundance that He satisfies the hungry at once. "They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and You shall make them drink of the river of your pleasure." (Psalm 36:8)
Hungry and thirsty, yet satisfied with good things, and full of delights. The Lord says, "Eat that which is good; and let your soul delight itself in fatness." (Isaiah 55:2)--Present Truth, February 8, 1894--Timeline: IV-15 (Sermon on the Mount)--Matthew 5:6.